[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 14/18] sunxi: Pine64: defconfig: enable SPL FIT support

Dr. Philipp Tomsich philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com
Wed Apr 5 14:10:03 UTC 2017


> On 29/03/17 07:57, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:45:22AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
>>> The Pine64 (and all other 64-bit Allwinner boards) need to load an
>>> ARM Trusted Firmware image beside the actual U-Boot proper.
>>> This can now be easily achieved by using the just extended SPL FIT
>>> loading support, so enable it in the Pine64 defconfig.
>>> Also add the FIT image as a build target to 64-bit sunxi board to
>>> trigger the respective Makefile rules.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>>> ---
>>> configs/pine64_plus_defconfig  | 6 ++++++
>>> include/configs/sunxi-common.h | 4 ++++
>>> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/configs/pine64_plus_defconfig b/configs/pine64_plus_defconfig
>>> index 92bda60..8a90579 100644
>>> --- a/configs/pine64_plus_defconfig
>>> +++ b/configs/pine64_plus_defconfig
>>> @@ -3,9 +3,14 @@ CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI=y
>>> CONFIG_MACH_SUN50I=y
>>> CONFIG_RESERVE_ALLWINNER_BOOT0_HEADER=y
>>> CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="sun50i-a64-pine64-plus"
>>> +CONFIG_OF_LIST="sun50i-a64-pine64 sun50i-a64-pine64-plus"
>>> # CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_CLEAR_ON_INIT is not set
>>> CONFIG_CONSOLE_MUX=y
>>> CONFIG_SPL=y
>>> +CONFIG_FIT=y
>>> +CONFIG_SPL_FIT=y
>>> +CONFIG_SPL_LOAD_FIT=y
>>> +CONFIG_SPL_OF_LIBFDT=y
>> 
>> Again, this doesn't make any sense to enable it in *all* our
>> defconfigs. If this is something that should be enabled by default for
>> the A64 support, then do so in Kconfig directly.
> 
> Oh sorry, I think I completely misunderstood you last time.
> Indeed this makes sense, especially with more defconfigs for A64/H5
> boards coming up.
> 
> I will think about a solution that makes Icenowy happy as well,
> something like BOARD_NEEDS_SPL_FIT or so - though a simple "select"
> sounds tempting ;-)

In fact we combine this with
> # CONFIG_SPL_RAW_IMAGE_SUPPORT is not set
> # CONFIG_SPL_LEGACY_IMAGE_SUPPORT is not set

for our boards, so we can iterate through a list of potential boot sources than could contain a FIT image.

Cheers,
Phil.


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